Workday Functional consultant; Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, Reporting & Prism Analy

Position: Workday Functional consultant (Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, Reporting & Prism Analy
Job Description:

Workday Functional Consultant – Finance / US Payroll / Absence & Time Tracking / Reporting & Prism
Experience

Required:

5–20 Years

Job Location:

Bangalore / Pune / Gurgaon / Noida / Mumbai

Shift:  Rotational Shift – Noon / Evening / Global Time Zones

Modules:  Workday Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, Reporting & Prism Analytics

What Can You Expect?
Plan and prioritize work across different phases of the Workday implementation, upgrade, and support lifecycle.
Lead or manage Workday implementations, enhancements, upgrades, and production support engagements.
Gather business requirements, perform functional analysis, and translate requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
Configure and support end-to-end Workday business processes based on the relevant functional module.
Support integrations, data conversion, reporting, testing, UAT, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
Work closely with Engagement Managers, Project Managers, technical teams, and client stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
Identify risks, dependencies, and issues proactively and ensure timely resolution.
Own functional solutioning and provide guidance to junior consultants and team members.

Module-Specific Responsibilities:
1. Workday Finance
Configure and support Workday Financial Management processes.
Experience across areas such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Banking, Expenses, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, and Financial Accounting.
Gather requirements and design solutions for financial business processes.
Configure business processes, security, accounting structures, worktags, ledgers, journals, and financial reporting.
Support financial data conversion, reconciliation, testing, and month-end/year-end processes.
Work with integrations and third-party financial systems.
Support Workday releases, enhancements, and production issues.
2. Workday US Payroll
Configure and support end-to-end Workday US Payroll processes including earnings, deductions, taxes, payroll calculations, pay groups, and calendars.
Strong understanding of US federal, state, and local taxation, garnishments, W-2, benefits deductions, and payroll compliance.
Manage payroll data transformation, reconciliation, and EIB/inbound-outbound integrations.
Support parallel payroll runs, UAT, cutover, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
Coordinate with HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, and other upstream/downstream modules.
Support payroll integrations with tax, benefits, and other third-party vendors.
3. Workday Absence & Time Tracking
Configure and support Workday Absence Management and Time Tracking processes.
Configure absence types, eligibility rules, accruals, time-off plans, validations, calendars, and related business processes.
Configure time tracking, time entry, time calculations, time-off, overtime, and time validation rules.
Integrate Time Tracking and Absence with Payroll, Benefits, HCM, and other Workday modules.
Support testing, UAT, data conversion, go-live, and production support.
Troubleshoot time and absence-related issues and provide functional solutions.
4. Workday Reporting & Prism Analytics
Develop and support Workday reports including Advanced, Matrix, Composite, and Custom Reports.
Strong understanding of calculated fields, report data sources, prompts, filters, and report security.
Build dashboards and analytics based on business requirements.
Support reporting requirements across HCM, Finance, Payroll, Time, Absence, and other Workday modules.

Experience with Workday Prism Analytics for data ingestion, transformation, blending, and analytical reporting.
Support Prism data sources, datasets, calculated fields, data preparation, and validation.
Work with business stakeholders to translate reporting and analytics requirements into Workday solutions.
Troubleshoot reporting and Prism-related issues and support Workday releases.

Required Skills & Experience
Strong functional expertise in  at least one of the following Workday modules:  Finance, US Payroll, Absence & Time Tracking, or Reporting & Prism.
Hands-on experience in Workday configuration, business processes, troubleshooting, testing, and production…